Category: Obituaries

Jerry worked as a photographer for UW-Madison before retiring.

After receiving her Master’s degree, Sue became the Nursing Labor Relations Manager for UW-Hospital and Clinics.

Tom was hired as academic staff to manage Babcock Hall dairy plant, teach, and do research. For 22 years he proudly taught the farm short course in dairy processing. By retirement in 2008 he had advanced to administration in the food science department and achieved emeritus status.

Jody became publicity director for the UW-Madison Memorial Union, nurturing artistic and writing talents and befriending many of her student employees. She returned to school and earned an MSW in 1986. After advising students at the UW School of Social Work, she became the first director of the Kennedy Heights Community Center.

He was employed by University of Wisconsin-Extension in 1961, with which he stayed until retirement in 1993. At UW his main focus was educational work for local government officials.

Bill spent his entire 22-year academic career at the University of Wisconsin, most recently as the Richard E. Stockwell Professor of Economics. Bill’s primary area of research was evolutionary game theory.

In 1978, Thomas joined the UW Hospital and Clinics and retired as Professor Emeritus in 2007.

Sigurd had great pride at being a skilled tradesman and he was a master electrician. He retired from the University of Wisconsin in 2002 as head of their electric shop.

He trained as a boxer, wrestler and weightlifter in Iraq before immigrating to the U.S. in 1960, where he served in the Army at Fort Knox, Kentucky, for three years, according to his son and Adajian. He attended the Illinois Institute of Technology and received his civil engineering degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, eventually landing in Chicago where he worked for the state as a bridge inspector, according to his son.

Joyce spent the bulk of her career working for the UW Hospital and Clinics and the UW School of Medicine. Most recently she was the Student Programs Coordinator for the UW Department of Family Medicine and Community Health.

Carol worked in the Nursing Department for UW-Madison, retiring in 2001.

He served as an adjunct Clinical Professor of Neurology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1989-98.

Tim returned to Madison in 1976 to practice rheumatology, and also held a Professorship of Medicine at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health before retiring in 2012.

She worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Environmental Toxicology Department, studying the effects of toxins on fish in Lake Michigan. In 1997, Linda shifted careers and obtained a master’s degree in Public Policy and Public Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison LaFollette Institute with an emphasis on healthcare.

Skop remembers Sobah fondly from her capstone course she taught at UW in 2016. “It was a genomics course but I teach the students how to communicate science,” Skop says. “I’m very much a proponent of creating inclusive environments.”

Jean Heitz will be remembered for her patience, her strength, and her generosity, as well as for the passion she brought to her role at the UW-Madison Biology Department, where she was a Distinguished Faculty Associate since 1978.

Dr. Banes taught at Florida State University, the State University of New York’s Purchase College, Wesleyan University and Cornell University before joining the faculty of the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1991. She taught dance and theater history and, from 1992 to 1996, chaired the dance program.

Banes’s teaching career included stints at Florida State University, SUNY Purchase, Wesleyan University, Cornell and the University of Wisconsin Madison, where she was named the Marian Hannah Winter Professor of Theater History and Dance Studies in 1996.

Cynthia Greenberg was born on Jan. 31, 1923, in the Bronx. Her father, Morris, owned some of Manhattan’s first parking garages, and her mother, Sophia, was a homemaker. She studied at the University of Wisconsin and New York University before earning a bachelor’s degree at Columbia University in 1946 and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering there in 1948.

She also served as adjunct Law Professor at the UW Madison Law School.

He taught at the University of Wisconsin Madison in the areas of Criminal Law and Juvenile Justice Administration.

Larry worked as an auditor for the State and University of Wisconsin, retiring in the 90s.

She retired in 1992 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Nursing, as a Full Professor with Emeritus status.

In 1956, he moved to Madison to help construct a new synchrotron accelerator at the University of Wisconsin and eventually became Optics Group Leader of the UW’s Synchrotron Radiation Center. He was a world expert in ultraviolet optics and instrumentation.

Merten, who was born in Milwaukee, received an undergraduate degree in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a masters in computer science from Stanford University, and a PhD in computer science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

David obtained a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1963. The next 33 years were spent as a professor in the Dairy Science Department at the University of Wisconsin, where he taught 10,228 students.

Alfred worked at the Animal Husbandry Department, University of Wisconsin caring for the Genetic Research Swine Breeding herd, at the University of Wisconsin Mandt Farm on Mineral Point Road, Verona, WI for over 43 years.

After graduating from Wayne County High School in Jesup, he earned a bachelor’s degree in religion at Emory University in Atlanta in 1974. In 1978 he earned a master’s degree in South Asian studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he became active in gay rights issues.

In 1981, he joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he co-founded the industry consortium WEMPEC and served for 28 years as its Co-Director and as the W. W. Grainger Professor for power electronics and electrical machines.

Following his military service, he obtained a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1959. The next 40 years were spent as a professor in the Food Science Department at the University of Wisconsin.

In 1970, Hans joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, establishing what soon became an internationally recognized research program in physical-organic chemistry.

In 1966, he was appointed Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

In all, Meg worked in various roles for the University of Wisconsin for over 40 years before her retirement in June 2017. She worked for the medical school, school of business, agricultural journalism department, and as a publication editor at UW-Extension. She was a public information specialist for UW-Extension at the time of her retirement.

She taught 18 different courses at UW including Biocore, in which she taught “Organismal Biology” to undergraduates for 28 years. During her tenure, she also Chaired the Departments of Neurophysiology, Physiology, and Neuroscience.

Dr. Yandell taught at UW-Madison from 1966 until 2011.

Kathy proudly retired after 40 years working at the University of Wisconsin.

Ginny worked as an administrative assistant at the University of Wisconsin Department of Sociology for 34 years.

After medical school he started an Ear, Nose, and Throat residency at UW-Madison, and was named chief resident at UW Hospital.

He received appointments at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and the UW-Extension where he served as Extension Program Leader for Natural and Environmental Resources.

Donna graduated from Madison Central High School in 1963, and spent her 42 year career as a secretary at the UW-Madison.

She was a professor of music at the University of Wisconsin, Madison from 1978 through 2002, specializing in music theory and was formative in establishing the jazz studies program that now exists there (which is newly revived).

Fostner, who reportedly graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in nuclear engineering and physics, had worked in New York for DV Trading LLC, a Chicago-based proprietary trading firm.

Hans was a dump truck owner and operator for over 20 years and then became a motor vehicle operator for the UW-Madison, retiring in 2019.

In 1963, he began his career as a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UW Madison.

She was a Certified Professional Secretary, working as an Administrative Secretary at the UW for 40+ years, and was a member of the University Women’s Service Club, serving two terms as treasurer.

He became a steamfitter working on the UW-Madison campus and at UW Hospitals and Clinics.

Though born in Allentown, Penn. in 1933, he considered Wisconsin home from the year he arrived in 1965 to work as journals manager at the University of Wisconsin Press.

Her belief in the value of education brought her back to Madison, where she earned a Ph.D. As Program Director and Distinguished Faculty Associate at the University of Wisconsin Division of Continuing Studies she was a shining example of The Wisconsin Idea.

David taught Human Anatomy and Histology and did cell research at New York University Medical School and Cornell University Medical School. He joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin Medical School, Anatomy Department in 1959. He chaired the Department during sixteen difficult years in the 1960s and 1970s.